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The Constitution was the expression not only of a political faith, but also of political fears. It was wrought both as the organ of the national interest and as the bulwark of certain individual and local rights.
Mona Simpson

Born: June 14, 1957 (age 67)
Bio: Mona Elizabeth Simpson is an American novelist. She has written six novels and is a professor of English at the University of California, Los Angeles and the Sadie Samuelson Levy Professor in Languages and Literature at Bard College.
Known for:
- Anywhere but Here (1986)
- A regular guy (1996)
- My Hollywood (2010)
- The Lost Father (1993)
- Off Keck Road (2000)